Some Days They Try Your Patience

Image by Getty Images via Daylife

Today the kids were extra active and frustrating. I stopped by McDonalds to get dinner after I picked up the kids. As usual, I could not sit still and eat without Sugarpuff running around and getting into trouble and annoying other customers in the restaurant. As I tried to eat, he tried climbing onto all the tables, intruded on other family's tables by touching their things or walking through their table area, invaded the janitor's closet, and upturned the soda onto the floor. This is typical of a day after school with Sugarpuff. I always try holding him while I eat but he struggles so hard that eventually I have a hard time trying to eat while holding him so I have to let him go.

Pony Ride Pictures

The pictures came out for Sweetheart and Sugarpuff's pony ride and picture day. The photographers had apparently brought hats and scarves for the kids to wear in the pictures. They had the kids posing in the most adorable ways! With their little arms and fists under their chins and sitting on the pony with cowboy hats and scarves around their necks, the pictures were perfect. They also got to ride the pony around on the grounds.

The first week of school, Sweetheart continuously offered me her work from that day of school. They were colored drawings, tracing numbers, paintings, etc. I realized that I wanted to keep these precious works that she had labored on in class for years to come to look back on. It'll be a great conversation piece for me and her as she gets older! :)

Starting School

My toddlers have started school together. I think it's really cute that they are going to school togther. I had forgotton that when little children start school, they also bring home viruses from the other kids. Almost immediately after Sugarpuff started school, he came down with conjunctivitis. It is very contagious and soon his sister and I got it. It's taken me and my daughter a month to start getting over it. I think my allergies are just aggravating it more though. It's nothing like a virus to totally turn your days upside down. I was non-productive for the most part. It's a terrible virus and I'm still getting over it.

They had pony ride day at school the other day and the kids were dressed up in hats and scarves and pictures were taken on the pony. They looked absolutely adorable! It's nice that the kids are in school and I am happy that they have a regularly scheduled week. I'm also happy with the school. I tried to look at as many schools as possible before deciding on the current one.